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COMPLIMENTS OF 



Pittsburgh Industrial 

Development 

Commission 



FOURTH EDITION — NINETIETH THOUSAND 
REVISED TO NOVEMBER, 1913 



P4P7 



THE REAL PITTSBURGH 

Facts and Figures Presented by 

THE PITTSBURGH INDUSTRIAL 
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION 



President: - H. P. BOPE. 

Vice-President: F. F. NICOLA. 

Treasurer: - W. H. DONNER. 

Secretary: - W. C. DOUGLAS. 

Advtg. Mgr.: J. J. NORDMAN. 



COMMISSION 

H. P. BOPE, 

Vice-President and General Manager 
of Sales, Carnegie Steel Company. 

F. F. NICOLA, 

W. H. DONNER, President, 

Cambria Steel Company. 
D. P. BLACK, President, 

Real Estate Trust Co. 
JAMES C. CHAPLIN, Vice-Pres., 

Colonial Trust Co. 
MORRIS BAER, 

Kaufmann-Baer Company. 
W. C. COFFIN, Structural Engineer, 

Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. 
ROBERT FINNEY, General Agent, 

B. & O. R. R. Company. 

ROBERT GARLAND, President, 

Garland Nut & Rivet Company. 
R. L. O'DONNEL, Gen. Supt., 

Penna. R. R. 
J. M. SCHOONMAKER, Vice-Pres., 

P. & L. E. R. R. Co. 
JAMES F. KEEN AN, Pres., Haugh & 

Keenan Storage and Transfer Co. 

J. ROGERS FLANNERY, President, 
Vanadium Metals Company. 

G. W. C. JOHNSTON, Sec'y-Treas., 

Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouses. 



FACTS ABOUT 



Q "Pittsburgh is, and will continue to be, the greatest 
iron and steel center of the world." — 

Judge E. H. Gary 

Chairman, United States Steel Corporation. 

<\ "The industries of Pittsburgh are admirably located, 
and, in addition to the enormous field which will 
always exist in the east and central west, which it 



Pittsburgh : Good For Business 

The center of a population of 5,000,000, 
in directly tributary territory. 

Cheapest and best fuel in the world ; Pitts- 
burgh coal possesses 10 to 20 per cent more 
heat units than any other bituminous coal. 

Plenty of available sites at reasonable prices 
for both large and small manufacturing plants; 
eighty miles of harbor line along three rivers. 

Manufacturing machinery and tools exempt 
from taxation. 

Abundance of skilled labor. 

Banking facilities; Pittsburgh banks lead all 
cities of the country in proportion of capital 
and surplus to gross deposits. 

Splendid transportation facilities — to be 
made even better by Ohio River Improve- 
ments. All water route to Panama Canal. 

Live Chamber of Commerce and other 
business organizations. 

Business administration of municipal af- 
fairs; council of nine prominent business men; 
board of education, twelve men of large affairs 
and three noted women educators. 






PITTSBURGH 



will continue to serve, it is favorably located for the 
export trade of the world .... Proposals are under 
consideration which, when carried out, will add still 
further to the efficiency of Pittsburgh's plants, increase 
their capacity, diversify their output, and improve the 
social and economic conditions of those engaged in the 
industry." — 

James A. Farrell 

President, United States Steel Corporation. 



Pittsburgh: Good to Live In 

Good wages; reasonable taxation. 

Desirable small residences and apartments 
in various sections of the city and surrounding 
boroughs at fair prices or rents. 

Strong financial institutions to help you own 
your own homes. 

Excellent schools, colleges, libraries, etc. ; 
recreation and amusement facilities ; free organ 
recitals. 

Pure water supply; health record high. 

Smoke nuisance being rapidly abated. 

Lowest costs for coal and natural gas for 
domestic uses. 

Technical training schools for youth and 
adult; co-operating shop educational systems, 
giving the student actual shop experience in 
the mills and factories in connection with a 
technical course. 

Twenty square miles of parks; free btnd 
concerts; clean amusements. 



Pittsburgh's Ton nage 

It Has Quadrupled in Fifteen Years ; 
It Has Doubled in Eight Years 



The Record for Fifteen Years 



Year 
1897.. 
1898.. 
1899. . 
1900.. 
1901. . 
1902. . 
1903.. 
1904. . 
1905.. 
1906. . 
1907.. 
1908. . 
1909.. 
1910.. 
1911. . 
1912. . 



Railroad 

36,679,415 

39,387,925 

49,475,211 

57,005,465 

64,125,000 

78,950,000 

79,750,000 

77,750,000 

92,000,000 

113,000,000 

146,798,351 

104,500,508 

145,580,388 

156,301,531 

152,073,897 

164,594,915 



River 

7,318,366 

7,407,243 

9,181,486 

8,813,166 

9,100,000 

10,900,000 

10,673,394 

8,209,356 

11,023,928 

9,000,000 

14,395,816 

11,454,895 

12,426,154 

11,431,737 

12,519,776 

12,476,323 



Total 

43,997,718 

46,875,168 

58,656,699 

65,868,613 

73,225,000 

87,850,000 

80,423,394 

85,959,356 

103,023,928 

122,000,000 

161,194,167 

115,955,403 

158,006,542 

167,733,268 

164,593,673 

177,071,238 



Total, 15 yrs. 1,557,972,606 166,331,640 1,724,304,246 



Compared With Tonnage of World's Great Ports 



PITTSBURGH! 
177,000,000/ 



GREAT LAKES J* 
146,000,000 
TONS 



Year Tons 

1911— Port of Liverpool. . 14,767,993 

1911— Port of London. . . 20,978,223 

1911— Port of Hamburg. . 23,776,188 

1911— Port of Antwerp.. 26,656,480 

1912— Port of New York. 27,222,903 

1911— Suez Canal 25,417,853 

1911 — Tonnage of Great 
Lakes (more than half of 
which is contributed by 
Pittsburgh) 146,631,563 

1912— Pittsburgh's Ton- 
nage 177,071,238 

The tonnage of New York, 
London and Hamburg, the great- 
est ports of the world's three 
great maritime nations, com- 
bined, was 71,977,314 tons. 
Pittsburgh's tonnage, 177,071,238 portofnewyork 
tons, is nearly 2k times this total. 

Pittsburgh's tonnage in 1912 
exceeded the combined tonnage 
of the Great Lakes and the Suez 
Canal by 5,000,000 tons. 



THREE GREATEST 
OCEAN PORTSvj 
71.000,000 

TONS 



27,000,000 N. v 
TONS ^ 

SUEZ CANAL 

25.000.000 

TONS 



Pittsburgh — Strongest Banking City in the 
United States 



Pittsburgh leads the great cities of the country 
in proportion of capital and surplus to gross 
deposits. Here were the percentages in August, 
1913, all National Banks and Trust Companies 
included: 



Pittsburgh 36 % 

St. Louis 28|% 

Philadelphia 26^% 

Baltimore 24|% 

New York 21 % 



Chicago 19 % 

Boston 17|% 

Cleveland 1 5 % 

Detroit 14 % 

Buffalo 12i% 



Pittsburgh Banks and Trust Companies, 1913 

Number 86 

Capital $ 53,670,000 

Surplus and Undiv. Profits 99,104,000 

Deposits 417,437,000 

Dividends (Year 1912) 7,073,178 



FOURTH CITY IN 


Cap., Suip. 


FIFTH CITY IN 




INVESTED CAPITAL and Profits 


DEPOSITS 


Deposits 




$599,196,000 


New York . . . 


$2,840,711,000 


Philadelphia .... 


193,132,000 


Philadelphia . 


724,306,000 




177,717,000 


Chicago 


991,414,000 


Pittsburgh . . 


152,774,000 


Boston 


745,236,000 


Boston 


130,375,000 


Pittsburgh 


420,048,000 


St. Louis 


87,360,000 


Cleveland . . . 


317,012,000 




55,405,000 


St. Louis .... 


302,880,000 


Cleveland 


48,840,000 


Buffalo 


228,761,000 


Cincinnati 


34,673,000 


Baltimore . . . 


226,230,000 


Buffalo • 


28,716,000 


Detroit 


198,539,000 


Detroit 


28,488,000 


Cincinnati . . . 


133,514,000 


[The above. tables are revised to Septemb 


er, 1913.] 



Clearing House Exchanges, 191 1-1912 
Pittsburgh Advances One in Rank 





Year 1911 




Year 1912 


New York . . . 


$92,372,812,735 


New York. . $100,743,9' i ; J^'. 


Chicago 


13,925,709.802 


Chicago .... 


15,380,795,541 


Boston 


8,339,718,582 


Boston .... 


8,963,808,530 


Philadelphia . 


7,691,842,937 


Philadelphia 


8,166,286,613 


St. Louis 


3,859,681,136 


St. Louis. . . 


4,027,580,808 


Kansas City. 


2,578,730,359 


Pittsburgh 


2,798,990,215 


Pittsburgh 


2,520,285,912 


Kansas City 


2,713,027,916 


Baltimore . . . 


1,767,682,328 


Baltimore . . 


1,957,474,680 


Cincinnati . . . 


1,277,555,300 


Cincinnati . . 


1,369,215,000 


Cleveland . . . 


1,012,557.805 


Cleveland . . 


1,150,397,653 




988,647,059 




1,127,793,196 


Buffalo 


516,876,770 


Buffalo . 


579,088,538 



The city where the banks are strongest offers 
the best security to depositors, the best accom- 
modations to borrowers, and the best facilities to 
investors. 



"Pittsburgh, Fifth City" 



U. S. Census Bureau's Official Report of Metropolitan 
Districts of 25 Cities 

The U. S. Census Bureau's figures on the 
metropolitan areas of the chief cities of the 
country places Pittsburgh in fifth place in the 
list of metropolitan districts. The Metropolitan 
District of Pittsburgh compares in population 
with the Metropolitan Districts of other great 
cities as follows. 

The Metropolitan District as computed by the 
Census Bureau covers a radius of approximately 
ten miles in each case. 

New York 6,474,568 Buffalo 488,661 

Chicago 2,446,921 Los Angeles 438,226 

Philadelphia 1,972,342 Milwaukee 427,175 

Boston 1,520,470 Providence 395,972 

Pittsburgh.... 1,042,855 Washington 367,869 

St. Louis 828,733 New Orleans 348,109 

San Francisco- Kansas City (Mo. 

Oakland 686,873 and Kans.) 340,446 

Baltimore 658,715 Louisville 286,158 

Cleveland 613,271 Rochester 248,512 

Cincinnati 563,804 Seattle 239,269 

Minneapolis-St. Indianapolis .... 237,783 

Paul 526,256 Denver 219,314 

Detroit 500,982 Portland, Oregon. 215,048 

Pittsburgh's Raw Materials Feed 
a Thousand Industries 

HARDWARE— Total Value Produced 

in United States $45,770,1 71 

jk EZfJ/ of the raw material came from 
*TiDyO Pittsburgh District. 

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS— 

Total Value ProducedinU. S . $1 1 2,007,344 
jk Jk i\f of the raw material came from 
^T^ryO Pittsburgh District. 

AUTOMOBILE S— Total Value 

Produced in U. S $320,000,000 

Jk rz ~7(yf of the raw material came 
H-O. I yO from Pittsburgh District. 

MACHINERY— Total Value Produced 

in U. S $687,901,388 

*^ ^ f\f of the raw material came from 
O ■ fO Pittsburgh District. 



Mr. Outside Manufacturer: How Much 
Freight Do You Pay Per Year on Your 
Raw Material ? 



"The Pittsburgh District" 

Census Report, Principal Manufactures, Year 
1909 — Metropolitan District of Pittsburgh 

Value 

Capital. Products. 

Brass, bronze $ 4,275,850 $ 3,397,537 

Brick, clay working. 6,402,004 2,432,383 

Cars.R.R. shop work 8,937.099 17,365,456 

Cutlery, tools 3,565,921 3,086,268 

Electric machinery... 49,184,808 20,260,163 

Fo'd'y, machine shop 70,585,128 52,411,013 

Glass (all kinds) .... 21,184,109 9,260,569 
Iron and Steel: 

Pig iron 100,116,105 85,584.235 

Steel (rolled) . . . 234,689,014 237,186,077 
Pipe (iron and 

steel, wrought). 7,353,477 7,168,723 
Tin plate, and 
iron and copper 

sheets 5,350,604 11,174,765 

All other iron 

and steel 8,388,200 7,574,394 

Leather 1,870,899 1,422,022 

Liquors (all kinds) . . 26,185,985 11,885,733 
Lumber and wood- 
working 4,864,477 4,745,626 

Paint, varnish 3,878,767 3,779,518 

Oil, petroleum, etc... 2,834,055 4,665,804 

Printing, publishing. 10,375,382 9,663,449 
Slaughtering, meat 

packing 4,006,950 14,492,440 

Soap 1,200,245 1,232,164 

Tobacco 1,920,770 3,715,594 

Wagons, vehicles.... 1,910,083 1,031,239 

All other 163,449,114 65,280,321 



District Total. . $642,527,046 $578,815,493 



The same report gives the following addi- 
tional totals for the district (manufacturing 
plants only): 

Annual payroll $115,049,924 

Materials used 366,892,433 

Employees in manufacturing 159,977 

Number establishments 2,369 

Census Comparisons, Population and Value of Product 

[U. S. Census Report by Metropolitan 
Districts, 1910] 

Value Mfd. 

METROPOLITAN Value of Product 

DISTRICT OF Population Mfd. Product Per Capita 

Pittsburgh 1,018,463 $578,815,000 $575 

St. Louis 759,446 328,495,000 433 

Cleveland 637,425 271,961,000 426 

Detroit 531,591 252,992,000 476 

Buffalo 528,985 218,804,000 414 



Pittsburgh in Iron and Steel 

(Corrected to Dec. I, 1913) 

— PIG IRON — 

Number of blast furnaces in entire 

country 421 

Number of blast furnaces in Pittsburgh 

District 84 

Percentage entire country in Pittsburgh 

District 20% 

Tons 

Production pig iron, entire country, 

year 1912 (official) 29,726,937 

Production pig iron, Pittsburgh District, 

year 1912 (official) 1 0,001 ,099 

Percentage in Pittsburgh District 30|% 

— STEEL — 

Number 

Bessemer converters in Pittsburgh 

District 37 

Number Bessemer converters in entire 

country 1 84 

Percentage in Pittsburgh District 20% 

Number 

Open-hearth steel furnaces in Pittsburgh 

District 358 

Open-hearth steel furnaces in country. . . 971 

Per cent, in Pittsburgh 37% 

Tons 

Total production of steel in Pittsburgh 

District, 1912 11,199,430 

Total production of steel in State of 

Pennsylvania, 1912 15,633,754 

Total production of steel in entire 

country, year 1912 31,251,303 

Pittsburgh's percentage of steel output 

to total for country 36% 

Pittsburgh's percentage of steel output 

to total for Pennsylvania 71 %% 

[This includes steel of all kinds, Bessemer, 
open-hearth and crucible — the raw materials from 
which all finished steel products in this country 
are produced.] 



World's Pig Iron Output, 1911 

[Complete world's statistics for 1912 not available] 



Entire World* 63,251,731 tons 

United States (1912) 29,726,937 " 

Germany 15,280,527 " 

Great Britain 9,874,620 " 

France 4,410,856 " 

Russia 2,865,000 " 

Austria-Hungary 2,095,000 " 

Belgium 2,103,120 " 

Canada (1912) 912,878 " 

Sweden : . 633,8u0 " 

Spain 353,500 " 

Italy 235,000 " 

All other countries 535,000 " 

♦Note: A slight discrepancy in this total from 
the actual footings of the figures that follow it is occa- 
sioned by the use of 1912 figures for U. S. and Canada. 



Pittsburgh Against the World in Pig Iron 
Pittsburgh District (1912)— 10,001,099 tons. 

All of Great Britain— 9,874,620 tons. 

State of Ohio entire— 6,802,493 tons. 

Canada, France, Sweden and Spain combined — 
6,311,034 tons. 

States of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan combined 
(including Chicago and Gary) — 4,657,987 tons. 

State of Alabama— 1,862,681 tons. 



Pittsburgh's production of pig iron in 1912 was 
66 per cent, of the total for Germany, and was 
greater than the total production of any country 
on the globe excepting America and Germany. 
Pittsburgh district in 1912 produced nearly a mil- 
lion tons more pig iron than the combined produc- 
tion of France, Russia and Belgium, which three 
countries rank fourth, fifth and sixth among the 
pig iron producing nations. 

Pittsburgh District in 1912 produced 16 per 
cent, of the world's output of pig iron. 



Pittsburgh's Varied Metal Products 

The annual statistical report of the American 
Iron & Steel Institute for 1912 says (p. 137): 

"In 1912 Alleaheny County made over 48.6 per cent, of 
the total production of pig iron in Pennsy'vania, and over 20.5 per 
cent, of the country's total production (as against 19.6 per cent, of 
country's total production in 1910;; over 49.8 per cent, of the total 
production of steel ingots and castings in Pennsylvania, and over 
24.9 per cent, of the country's total production ; over 42.7 per 
cent, of the rail production of Pennsylvania, and over 1 1 .4 per cent, 
of the country's total production ; over 51.8 per cent, of the produc- 
tion of structural shapes in Pennsylvania, and over 37.3 per cent, 
of the country's total production ; over 45 per cent of the produc- 
tion of plates and sheets in Pennsylvania, and over 24.2 per cent, of 
the country's total production ; over 65.5 per cent, of the produc- 
tion of merchant bars in Pennsylvania, and over 33.3 per cent, of 
the country's total production ; over 73.3 per cent, of the production 
of skelp in Pennsylvania, and over 31.5 per cent, of the country's 
total production, Allegheny County produced in 1912 over 49 per 
cent, of all kinds of finished rolled iron and steel in Pennsylvania, 
and over 24.3 per cent, of the country's total production." 

These percentages refer to the production of ALLEGHENY 
COUNTY alone, whereas the zone of the Pittsburgh mills and 
steel works extends for 25 miles beyond the boundaries of the 
county. 



The Center of the Steel Car Building Industry 

Pittsburgh District possesses the largest three 
steel car building plants in the world. 
Men employed in three plants, 19,000 

Consumption of Steel 900,000 Gross Tons 

Annual production (steel and 

wooden) 78,000 Cars 

Annual capacity. 100,000 Cars 

Capacity per day 350 Cars 

Freight Cars Built in steel wooden total 
U. S. in 1912 66,250 86,179 152,429 

Passenger Cars Built in 

U.S. in 1912 1,418 1,642 3,060 

Pittsburgh's Share, Country's Output 50 pet. 

The Center of the Tin Plate Industry 

Pittsburgh District produced 60 per cent, of 
Tin Plate Output of the United States, in 1912. 

Pounds 
Total production of Tin Plate in 

United States, 1912 2,157,055,000 

Production Pittsburgh District Estimated) 1,300, 000, 000 

Capacity of Tin Plate Plants of 

the Country, Dec. 1, 1913 484 hot mills 

Capacity of Pittsburgh District Plants. 293 hot mills 

Pittsburgh District possesses % of country's 
total tin plate capacity. 

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Pittsburgh District Produced Two-Thirds 
of Glass Output of Country in 1912 

Bottle Glassware— 

Twenty-four plants in Pittsburgh District 
produced in 1912. $10,420,000 

[Pittsburgh has been the cradle of the 
American bottle industry; and all 
machine-made bottles are to-day 
made on a Pittsburgh machine, devel 
oped by Pittsburgh glassmakers.] 

PLATE GLASS— 

Sixteen plants in Pittsburgh District pro- 
duced in 1910 (latest published figures) . . . $10,211,000 

Capital invested 17,260,627 

Output reported 23,448,000 sq. ft. 

Output cf U. S., year 1909 60,105,000 sq. ft. 

[Pittsburgh is tbe headquarters of the 
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., the lead- 
ing maker of plate glass in this 
country.] 

Window Glass— 

Fourteen window glass plants in Pittsburgh 

District produced in 1910 $ 6,640,000 

[Pittsburgh is headquarters of the 
American Window Glass Co., the 
largest producer in the country.] 

Pressed Glass, Tableware, Etc.— 

Sixteen pressed glass and tableware plants 
in Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh District 
in 1913 produced $ 6,700,000 

[Pittsburgh is headquarters for United 
States Glass Co., largest producer of 
tableware and pressed ware in the 
United States, with five of its seven 
plants located in Pittsburgh District.] 

Lamps, Chimneys. Electric Glass— 

Twelve plants in Pittsburgh and vicinity 

produced in 1912 $ 5,520,000 

[Pittsburgh is central headquarters of 
- Phoenix Glass Co., largest producer 
of lamp glass and electrical goods in 
the world, and of Macbeth-Evans 
Company, largest producer of chim- 
neys in United States.] 

Total glass output, Pittsburgh District $39,491,000 

Output of glass (all kinds) , in United States, 
year 1909 (Government Census Bulletin, 
census of 1910) $59,926,000 

Two Million Dollars a Week in High- 
Grade Machine Products 

Government Census Bulletin (1910) for Metropolitan 

District of Pittsburgh 

Value of 
Plants Output 

Electrical machinery, apparatus and 

supplies 18 $ 20,260,163 

Airbrakes, springs, wheels, car equip- 
ment, locomotives, cars 25 27,473,216 

Foundry and machine shop prod- 
ucts; machinery 218 52,411,01 3 

Total foundry and machine plants, 

locomotive and car shops 261 $100,144,392 

Cutlery and tools (such as are not 

classified in " machinery ") 20 3,086,000 

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Pittsburgh in Coal and Coke 



Bituminous Coal 

PITTSBURGH Coal is Pronounced 
by United States Geological Sur- 
vey as the Highest in Heat Units 
in the Country. 

Year 1912, Nit Tons 

Pittsburgh District (all bitumious) 98,528,508 

Pennsylvania (bituminous) 161,865,488 

Ohio 34,528,727 

West Virginia 66,786,687 

Indiana 15,285,718 

Total production bituminous coal in 
United States (excluding lignite coals 
mined west of Mississippi, of inferior 

steam power) 391,660,803 

Total production coal in United States, 
all grades 534,466,580 



PITTSBURGH DISTRICT PRODUCED— 

3/ of the bituminous coal mined in Penn- 
/5 sylvania in 1912. 

Tkr^ Tim^c the total out P ut of the 
inree limes state of Ohio in 1912. 



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times the total output of West Virginia 
3 in 1912. 

Pittsburgh District's Output of Bituminous Coal 
for 1912 was twice the combined ontput of 
Ohio and Indiana. 

World's Production of Coal, 

Year 1909 1,078,155,696 tons 

Pittsburgh District's Production. 98,528,508 tons 

Pittsburgh District's Proportion 

of World-Output 9 per cent. 

Connellsville Coke, 40 Miles Away — The 
Standard Coke the Country Over 

Production — Year 1912 Tons 

Connellsville Coke 20,837,934 

Pennsylvania, All Grades 27,438,693 

Alabama, All Gaades 2,975,489 

West Nirginia, All Grades 2,465,986 

United States 43,983,599 

Connellsville District Produced Within Two 
Million Tons of One-Half of All the Coke Made 
in the United States. 



Pittsburgh's Fuel Feeds a Nation's 
Industries 



Tons 

Pittsburgh coal shipped over Great 

Lake routes, year 1912 14,250,000 

Shipments of Pittsburgh coal via Mo- 
nongahela and Ohio rivers, calendar 
year 1912 9,943,333 

Rail shipments, exclusive of coal for 
lake shipment, or coal consumed in 
Pittsburgh District, or coal used 
in coke-making .26,500,000 



Total, year 1912 , 50,693,333 

Coal shipped into Pittsburgh from 

mines 16,000,000 

Freight Costs on Pittsburgh Coal at Home 

Average price at mine, best Pittsburgh 

steam coal $1 . 10 

River freight charge, mine to dock, Pitts- 
burgh harbor 10 

Average freight on rail haul, mine to plant 

in Pittsburgh District 35 

Rail rate, Connellsville coke, to points in 

Pittsburgh District 75 



Rail Freights on Pittsburgh Coal and Connells- 
ville Coke to other points: 

Coal Coke 

To Cleveland, O $ .98 $1 . 65 

" Toledo, 1.00 1.85 

" Buffalo, N.Y 1.25 1.85 

" Detroit, Mich 1.40 2.10 

" Chicago 1 . 90 2 . 50 

" New York City 2.20 2.85 

" Philadelphia 1 . 85 2 . 05 

" Erie, Pa 78 1.65 

" Youngstown, 70 1.20 

" Baltimore, Md 1 . 80 1 . 80 

" Milwaukee, Wis 1 . 90 2 . 70 

" Columbus, 1.65 

" Canton, 1.40 



Mr. Manufacturer: Why pay the railroads to 
haul the best fuel in the world many miles to your 
plant ? Bring your plant to the fuel. 



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Allegheny County Population, 1910 



Pittsburgh City 533,905 

McKeesport 42,694 

Braddock 19,357 

Homestead 18,713 

Wilkinsburg 18,924 

Adjacent Territory 384,870 

Total, Greater Pittsburgh .1,018,463 



Why the World's Manufacturers 
Want Pittsburgh Coal 

Pittsburgh Distriot has the best and most persistent bed 
of bituminous ooal In existenoe; not only uniform In thiok- 
ness of seam, but in quality. 

The British Thermal Heat Units of the Pittsburgh ooal 
along the Monongahela River and in Washington county 
exceed 14,000; in other words, the Pittsburgh ooal Is ap- 
proximately 90 per cent, perfeot In quality. With the 
exception of Georges Creek and some Pooahontas ooals, 
which are not as uniform in bed, henoe more difficult to 
mine, Pittsburgh ooal excels any ooal we have by 10 per 
oent. to 20 per cent, in heat unit value. The lower grade 
ooals in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois run from 10,000 up to 
12,500 In heat units, averaging but little over 11,500, as 
against Pittsburgh ooal averages of 13,500 to 14,500, thur 
making a differenoe of 20 per oent. In efficiency. 

Gas and ooke will be the fuels of the future. We have 
the best gas and the best coking ooal for the produotlon of 
gas and for metallurgical purposes. In the total, It Is Just 
as rloh In by-produots as any other ooal and will be the 
great fuel of the future. 

Nature's location of this fuel In olose proximity to the 
natural oenters of consumption assures Pittsburgh District's 
oontlnuanoe as the industrial oenter of the world. — From a 
statement dictated for this publication by John W. Boileau, 
coal expert and geologist, Pittsburgh. 



Postoffice Statistics for Year Ending 

June 30, 1913 

Carrier stations 21 Sub-stations 85 

Pieces of mail handled 437,146,608 

Annual receipts $3,136,125.09 

Number of employees 1310 



Pittsburgh in 1913 is sixth city in postal receipts. 

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Pittsburgh District, Center of Natural 
Gas — The World's Cheapest Fuel 

Cubic Feet 
Natural Gas Production in the 

United States, 1912 562,203,452,000 

Of which States of Pennsylvania 

and West Virginia produced. .251,237,923,000 
Valued at $51,888,693 
Practically all of this is produced' in territory 
directly tributary to Pittsburgh. 

Cubic Feet 
Gas piped into Pittsburgh in 1912 

(three companies) 77,480,000,000 

Miles of pipe line running into 
Pittsburgh from the gas fields 

of two States 5,950 

Gas is cheap in Pittsburgh because this city 
is the nearest large industrial center to the gas 
fields. 

Per 1,000 cu. ft. 
Average price of gas for industrial 

uses in Pittsburgh 14.5 cents 

Price in lake front cities 30 cents 

Assessed Valuation 

City of Pittsburgh (1912) $ 838,839,150 

Allegheny County (1912) 1,247,094,860 

The valuation of the county is divided in the 
following manner, the county assessors placing 
the valuation somewhat lower than do the city 
assessors: 

City of Pittsburgh $838,839,150 

City of McKeesport 38,640,620 

Boroughs 246,219,070 

Townships 123,396,020 

Crucible and High Grade Steels 

Tons 
Output of the country in high grade 

crucible tool steel, 1910 122,303 

Entire State of Pennsylvania 71,814 

Pittsburgh District 61,500 

Pittsburgh's proportion of country's 

output 50% 

Pipe and Tubing 

In pipe and tubing, Pittsburgh district pro- 
duced, 1912: 

Iron pipe 180,000 tons 

Steel pipe, boiler 

tubing, seamless 

tubing 640,000 tons 

Pittsburgh's Total. . . 820,000 tons 

Country's Total 1,828,000 tons 



Pittsburgh's Work for Science 

Laboratory Equipment — a Direct Aid to Industry 

Government Laboratories — Testing stations of 
the United States Bureau of Mines, Bureau 
of Standards, and Geological Survey. Equip- 
ment for special investigations and tests of 
clays, brick, cement, concrete and structural 
steel. Headquarters of Mines Safety division 
of United States Bureau of Mines. Tests of 
coal, and of mine gases. 

Carnegie Institute of Technology — Special labora- 
tories, provided with costly equipment, for the 
testing of all building materials, including 
stone, brick, cement and concrete, steel, etc. 
Mechanical engineering laboratory for testing 
machinery and' adjustment of weights and 
measures. 

University of Pittsburgh — Special research division 
for the benefit of the manufacturer, under 
charge of Robert Kennedy Duncan, Director 
of Industrial Research and Industrial Chem- 
istry. Includes a system of Industrial Fellow- 
ships to undertake special laboratory research 
in any industrial or manufacturing line, at 
the behest of the manufacturer. 

Scientific Societies — Pittsburgh furnishes unex- 
ampled opportunities for association with scien- 
tific bodies. The Engineers' Society of Western 
Pennsylvania, with headquarters in the Oliver 
Building, is one of the largest and most influ- 
ential engineering bodies in the country. The 
mechanical, structural, metallurgical and min- 
ing sections have separate organizations. This 
society draws its membership largely from the 
7,000 electrical, mechanical, metallurgical and 
construction engineers connected with the 
Westinghouse industries, the Carnegie Steel 
Co., the United States Steel Corporation, the 
American Bridge Co., and the great independ- 
ent steel companies in Pittsburgh. Among 
other technical engineering bodies with local 
sections in Pittsburgh are the American Insti- 
tute of Electrical Engineers, the American 
Chemical Society, the Institute of Electro- 
Chemical Engineers, the Illuminating Engi- 
neers, etc. All these bodies have provision 
for associate or student memberships. 

Free lectures on scientific, archaeological, engi- 
neering and technical subjects are given at 
intervals through the winter at Carnegie Insti- 
tute and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. 



Educational Institutions 



University of Pittsburgh 

Founded 1 787 

Faculty, 275. Campus, 43 acres. Students, 2,600. 
College 

School of Economics and Evening School of 
Accounts and Finance. 

School of Engineering (Co-operative Plan). 

School of Education. 

School of Mines. 

School of Medicine. 

School of Pharmacy. 

School of Dentistry. 

School of Law. 

Summer School. 

Special Saturday Classes. 

Industrial Chemistry, 50 Fellowships for Indus- 
trial Research. 

Carnegie Institue of Technology 

Built and Endowed by Andrew Carnegie 

Faculty, 204. Campus, 32 acres. Students, 3,045. 

School of Applied Science. 

School of Applied Industries. 

Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women. 

School of Applied Design. 

Day and night classes in: all of the schools. 

Duquesne University 
Faculty, 49. Students, 691. 

Pennsylvania College for Women 

Faculty, 24. Students, 270. 

High Schools 
Buildings, 9. Instructors, 122. Students, 5,169. 

Public Schools 
Buildings, 126. Teachers, 2,498. Students, 81,596. 

47 private schools and business colleges. 

"There are already thousands of uses of the 
electric current, and still we have only begun. 
.... It will some day cool us in summer and 
heat us in winter. It will propel all of our 
trains; it will increase the products of our 
soil; and it will promote our health. Pitts- 
burgh has become one of the foremost centers 
of electrical industries; and its citizens,_ in 
consequence, will have benefits and opportunities 
of ?n unusual character in the development of 
this wonderful force of Nature. No genius has 
been endowed with the power to predict its 
possibilities." — George Westinghouse. 



Show Places of Pittsburgh 

Qualifications as a Convention City. 
Carnegie Institute — 

Covers four acres, half an acre more than the 
Capitol at Washington. 

Cost Andrew Carnegie $6,000,000; with tech- 
nical schools adjoining and all endowments, 
$24,000,000. 

Music Hall, with great organ and free re- 
citals weekly. 

Art Galleries, with third largest permanent 
collections in the country and annual In- 
ternational Exhibition. 

Museum, in which special attention is given 
to geological exhibits and the sciences. 

Carnegie Library, eight branches, 22 sub-sta- 
tions. Number of volumes, 358,732; circu- 
lation, 2,130,538; attendance in reading 
rooms, 1,393,446. Technology department, 
40,000 volumes relating to trades and in- 
dustries. All privileges free to residents 
of Pittsburgh. 
Auditoriums — 

Exposition Hall, used annually, September- 
October, for Western Pennsylvania Exposi- 
tion. Main building contains second great- 
est floor space of any exhibit building in 
the country; floor area larger than Madi- 
son Square Garden, New York. 

Soldiers' Memorial Hall, cost $1,650,000; seat- 
ing capacity 2,550. 

Duquesne Garden, scene of horse show, auto 
show and similar annual exhibitions. 
Theatres — 

Ten theatres, including most perfect theater 
in the country outside New York, built 
without stairways. 
Clubs — 

Five country clubs, with well-equipped golf 
and tennis courts; strong civic club organi- 
zations, two matinee clubs, patronizing 
clean racing; many handsome downtown 
clubhouses. 
Center of Educational Life- 
Pittsburgh has, in the 1 heart of its residence 
district, at the Oakland entrance to Schen- 
ley Park, the nucleus for the finest institu- 
tional group in the country — including the 
new University of Pittsburgh, now under 
construction; Carnegie Institute, Library 
and Music Hall; the Carnegie Technical 
Schools; Phipps' Conservatory; the Pitts- 
burgh Athletic, University and other club- 
houses; the Eighteenth Regiment Armory; 
St. Paul's Cathedral; Forbes Field of the 
Pittsburgh Base Ball Club and the site for 
the new City High School. 



Special Advantages to the Manufacturer 



Location — Pittsburgh is the natural gateway 
between the East and the West. It is 
nearer the center of fifty millions of peo- 
ple, or the major population of the United 
States, than is any other industrial district. 
This means a saving of freight in the as- 
sembling of the raw materials, and in the 
distribution of the finished product. Pitts- 
burgh is within 12 hours of the sea, within 
12 hours of the Mississippi valley, and 
within six hours of the Great Lakes. 

Rail and Water Transport — Besides an unex- 
ampled system of railroad terminals, Pitts- 
burgh has the Allegheny, Monongaheia and 
Ohio rivers. On completion of the Federal 
Government's plans for siackwater im- 
provement, Pittsburgh will have the bene- 
fits of water navigation to the Gulf at all 
seasons of the year. The government 
already has expended $20,000,000 on the 
Ohio and its tributaries, and has $6,000,000 
of work under construction. This will give 
Pittsburgh an all-water route to the Pan- 
ama Canal and the Pacific coast. 

Taxation — Pennsylvania's taxation laws are 
more favorable to the manufacturer than 
those of any other State, corporations be- 
ing exempt from State tax on as much of 
their capital as is invested in manufactur- 
ing, including real estate used for manu- 
facturing. In city and county, they are 
exempt from taxation on all machinery and 
tools. 

Investments — Pittsburgh is an equally good 
piace for the investor. The local tax on 
bonds or money loaned at interest is 4/10 
of one per cent. Household goods are 
exempt. 

Opportunities for Apprentices 

Special Night Trade Schools — Carnegie Tech. 

Summer Courses in Engineering and Mining 
Branches — University of Pittsburgh. 

Apprenticeship Co-operative Courses — Special 
co-operative and apprenticeship courses in 
technical branches by University of Pitts- 
burgh and Carnegie Technical Schools, 
which include actual service in mills, shops 
and electrical works as a part of the in- 
struction. 



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Pittsburgh, a Healthy Place in Which 
to Live 

Mortality Rate 

That Pittsburgh is a healthy place in which to 
live is attested by the official figures issued by 
the Census Bureau for the year ending January 
1, 1910, which shows that, among 15 of the largest 
cities in the country, Pittsburgh stands fourth 
in the mortality table, only three cities having 
lower death rates. Following is the official mor- 
tality rate per 1,000 inhabitants: 

Deaths Deaths 

per 1,000 per 1,000 

Indianapolis 14.3 Newark 16.5 

Chicago 14.6 Boston 16.8 

Buffalo 15.2 Jersey City 16.8 

Pittsburgh 1 5.9 Denver 17 

St. Louis 15.9 Baltimore 18.7 

New York 16 Washington 19 

Philadelphia 16.4 New Orleans 20.2 

Cincinnati 16.4 

Typhoid Rate Reduced to Minimum 

Census Bureau statistics for the year 1912 show 
12 great cities with a worse typhoid death rate 
than Pittsburgh, with only two excelling it. The 
rating of 12.7 per 100,000 inhabitants is given Pitts- 
burgh for four-fifths of the city's area, which was 
supplied with filtered water. The filtered water 
supply is now being extended to the other one- 
fifth of the city's area. Following is the official 
rating: 

Deaths Deaths 

per 100,000 per 100,000 

Newark 11.8 Detroit 20.4 

New York 12 Buffalo 21 

Chicago 12.6 Milwaukee 21.1 

Pittsburgh 12.7 Indianapolis 22.2 

Cincinnati 13.3 Philadelphia 22.3 

Cleveland 13.3 Baltimore 24.8 

Boston 13.8 Washington 34.2 

St. Louis 16.2 

Parks, Recreation Facilities 

22 Parks, 1,388 Acres. 22 Theatres. 

23 Playgrounds and Vacation Schools, attendance 

(1910), 883,830. 
Zoological Gardens, Conservatories. 
Forbes Field, finest ball park in the world. 
Athletic Club, most complete and broadly planned 

in the country. 



The Bigness of Pittsburgh 



Largest pipe and tube mill in the world. 

Largest structural steel plant in the world. 

Largest glass manufacturing plant in the U. S. 

Largest independent wire manufacturing plant in 
the world. 

Largest independent concern manufacturing steel 
buildings and bridges. 

Largest brake manufacturing plant in the world. 

Largest corporation in the world manufacturing 
rolling mill machinery. 

Largest commercial coal plant in the United 
States. 

Largest works in the world for finishing alum- 
inum. 

Largest pickling and preserving plant in the world, 
employing 3,500 hands and 500 traveling sales- 
men. 

Largest electrical manufacturing works in the 
world, employing 13,000. 

Its steel works and blast furnaces give employ- 
ment to 75,000 men. 

Leads the world in the manufacture of iron, 
steel, glass, electrical machinery, steel cars, 
tin plate, air brakes, fire brick, white lead, 
pickles and preserves, cork and aluminum. 

Pittsburgh is the national plumbing supply center, 
the .annual volume of business done in this 
line being $7,000,000. 

The largest warehouse in the world, covering 

twenty-three acres of floor space, is located 

in Pittsburgh. 
Pittsburgh has a jobbing market serving 10,000,000 

people and doing an annual business of $1,- 

000,000,000. 

It has 509 miles of paved streets. 

Pittsburgh has 22 parks containing 1,387 acres, 
valued at over $7,000,000 on which she is 
spending over $300,000 each year in mainte- 
nance alone. 

For the hauling of materials, coke, iron ore and 
limestone, which are made into pig iron in 
the Pittsburgh district, 88,000 freight trains, 
with an average load of 3,400 gross tons 
apiece, are required every year. 

The Pittsburgh district comprises a population of 
almost 4,000,000 living within a radius of 40 
miles of the court house. 





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